Solaster E.Forbes 1839

• Main Author: Mah, Christopher L.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Valvatida; Solasteridae; Solaster; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3803687; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3803687

Solaster sp. 2 “yellow” Figure 18F This species displayed nine arms, possessed more abundant paxillae in a close, ordered and nearly imbricate pattern. Similar to Solaster sp. 1, this species also possessed large, distinct, evenly spaced paxillae forming an actinolateral boundary but spines appeared more elongate. Color in life was a light yellow. Ecological Notes Solaster sp. 2 was observed over an opening in the rock face where ophiuroids were noticeably present suggesting that it was moving in place to feed. Jangoux (1982) has listed ophiuroids as prey items for several Atlantic species, such as Solaster endeca, to which this species shows some similarity. Images Examined Richardson’s Jellyfish, 32.094912, -77.665695, 846 m EX1903L2_IMG_20190701T141732Z_ROVHD.jpg Published as part of Mah, Christopher L., 2020, New species, occurrence records and observations of predation by deep-sea Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the North Atlantic by NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, pp. 201-260 in Zootaxa 4766 (2) on page 241, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3764018